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VOLUME XLVII, NUMBER 37
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1930
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Marion, Ind. Jail Doors Not
Locked Investigation Reveals
N. A. A. C. P. Obtains
Names Of Lynchers
U. S. Supports Slave
Trade lu Abyssinia
Washington, D. C., Aug. 28.—The
bosses and government of America
.vhich recently condemned the Soviet
Union of using convict labor in the
production of manganese and pulp wood
ohied to this country, found themselves
faced with a contradiction of their
own cause for exclusion of these prod
ucts.
The J. D. White Company, of New
York, intended using slave labor in the
construction of a dam on the upper
.su, near Lake Tawna, in Abysinia. Ca
ble dispatches from Europe state that
he matter has been placed before the
discredited League of Nations, but do
not say by whom the charges are made.
It may be taken for granted that the
charges emanate from the rival camp
of the British imperialists who have
been worsted so far in the struggle
with American imperialism for control
of Abyssinia.
That these charges, made by a rival
imperialism indulging in the same
practices are nevertheless true is borne
out by the conditions in Abyssinia
which the feudal stage of society and
in no position to furnish free labor
for sTTliu^c an undertaking.
However, the American government
dismissed as of no importance the
charge against the J. G. White Co.
New York, Aug. 22.—That the two
solid steel doors of the Grant County
jail, which would have prevented en
trance of the mob which lynched Tom
Shipp and Abe Smith at Marion, Ind.,
on August 7th, were not locked on
the night of the lynching was revealed
here today on the return to New York
of Walter White, Acting Secretary of
the National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People. This is
but one of the instancees of gross fail
ure to protect the prisoners, charged
by Mr. White in a letter to James M.
Ogden* Attorney-General of Indiana.
In his communication to the Attorney
General, Mr. White gave the names of
alleged ring-leaders and members of
the mob which snuffed out the lives
of the two Negro youths at Marion.
In a statement made epublic today
Mr. White declared:
“Seldom has there been an instance
of more flagrant carelessness in pre
venting a lynching than was the case
at Marion. ' Sheriff Jacob Campbell
claims that he had no intimation that
the lynchings were being planned until
around seven o’clock in the evening of
August 7th when Mr. W. T. Sailey, wife
of a prominent physician of Marion,
telephoned the sheriff to that effect.
Mrs. Bailey is resident of the Marion
branch of the N. A. A. C. P., and of
the State Conference of Branches of
thee N. A. A. C. P. It is difficult to
understand how Sheriff Campbell could
not have known of the plans to lynch
the two Negro- boys Aparently every
one else in Marion knew early in the
afternoon that the elynchings were to
be staged. Claude Deeter, the white
man killed by the colored boys, died
about 1:30 in the afternoon. Immedi
ately crowds began to gather in the
streets and threats were openly made
that Smith and Shipp would be lynch
ed that evening. Deeter’s blood-stain
ed shirt was hung out of the front
window of the Marion City Building,
this being done, according to state
ments made to me by Chief of Po
lice Lindemuth and others, in order
that the shirt might ‘’dry” so that it
could be used as evidence in the trials
of Simith and Shipp. When asked why
the shirt had been allowed to stay
there so long, I was told that they
had “forgotten about it.” All after
noon people passed by the lace and
saw the shirt, which circumstances un
uestionably helped to inflame the mob
to action,
•Sheriff Campbell stated to me that
when Mrs. Bailey warned him of these
lynchings that hewent to te jail ga
rage and there found someeone had
removed the gasoline from th two cars
thre and had let the air out of the
tires. This was around seven o’clock
and the lynchings did not occur until
nearly three hu.:rs afterwards. He ap
parently made no tffort to get another
car to rmove the boys to a pluce of
e-keeping.
Furthermore, the two steei doors
ich would effectively have blocked
mpts of the mob to seize the pns
■8 were not locked. Each of these
rs is about seven-eights of an inch
•k made eoef solid steel and each
set in solid steel frames. They could
e been opened only by the use of a
w-torch and it would have taken an
ir or more to open each door. This
aid havegiven ample time for ar
al of police reinforcements from
rby tow’ns; which could have pre
ited the lynchings. The first of
se doors, as one enters the jai ,
s not close by two inches or more,
I found by testing itmyself. To
:her this door nor the second solid
;1 door were there any keys, stated
t he had been sheriff for four years
ad never seenany keys to these
rs He did not seem at all to feci
t this made any difference. Sheriff
ipbell is undoubtedly guilty of gross
National Forces
Indiana Lynchers
Discriminate
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. August— (CNA)
The School Board of this city ha3 let it
be known that School No. 11, at Capi
tol Ave. and 13th Street, will not be
used for Negro students this year.
It had been stated that due to the very
‘errible conditions of Negro schools,
due to overcrowding, ect., this school
would be turned over to them in order
to relieve these conditions. This or
der, however, will be rescinded at the
next meeting of the board.
This is interpreted by the Negro
masses of the district as another of
the long list of persecutions visited up
on the Negroes of Indiana by the ruling
class of this state who only a few days
ago played the leading role in the lyn
ching of two Negro workers and who
•ire making every effort to impose the
Conditions of Dixie upon the oppressed
Negro toilers.
The jim-crow school facilities for
Negroes in this city are rotten indeed.
In many of the portable schools can be
found wide openings in the walls and
ceilings which cannot be closed' be
coming a dreadful menace to the health
of Negro children. On rainy days tubs
are placed on the floors in various
sections of the building in order to
n^h the water as it drips through the
roof. In the winter months teachers
ha\ V' been knov^f ,/to instruct their
classes in their over-coats and over
shoes- due to the improper heating
facilities!
It has been hinted quite openly that
the pay of the Negro teachers in most
of these jim-crow institutions is far
beneath that of the white teachers and
the facilities for Negro children- sup
nlies books ect. are very inadequate.
if not criminal, negligence. The N. A.
A. C. P. has maae formal request of
Attorney-General Ogden to take action
which he is authorized to take under
the Indiana law against lynching, to
wards the impeachment and removal
from office of Sheriff Campbell.
“The facts are clear as to the crime
charged against the two boys who were
lynched. There is no question that they
that they killed Claude Deeter. The
circumstances, however, are not as
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Move Eastward
Chiago, where he will join the Chiago
delegation, heading up in Chiar.o from
the midde west. Dr. Edward H. Branch
the Executive Secretary of the Trans
portation Committee and Treasurer of
the Convention, will be in charge of the
Chiago delegation. They will travel
to New York over the New York Cen
tral Lines using the Twentieth Century
Limited route. Dr. G. C. Coleman oi
Oakland, Drs. D. C. Knox, of Los An
geles, A. Lively of Los Angeles, J. P..
Ramsey of Los. Angeles, Dr. Mack Allen \
of Arizona and others from southern
Califonia, will come in to Kansas City
over the Sante Fe and Sovthern Pacific
and in all probobility will journey eith
er to St. Louis or Chiago where they
will take the Broadway Limited route
to Pennsylvania, and on to. New York
I ^t. Louis they will be joined by Dj
J. H. Brewer and others, as Dr. Brewer
is one of the transportation Committee
*'rom down in the Southwest Arkansas,
Oklahoma and Texas they will come in
laxox eqj, 1 ’suoisiAip "puurJ
group will be in charge of Drs. S. R
Prince and J. H. Winn of Fort Worth,
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....Baptist From Every Section of the__
United States Ready to Invade Nation’s
Jtetropolis on September 10th.
Sectional and State Groups Already
Organized, Routees Selected and Spec
ial Trains Arranged T
Kansas City, Mo.— (Special)— ‘.Noth
ing has been undone to gurantee a
large attendence at the National Bap
tist Convention of America in its Fif*
tieth Jubilee Celebration to be held in
New York September 10-15, “Says the
Rev. John Wesley Hurse, President of
^that body. Dr. Hurse was speaking to
the representative of the Baptist forces
n this section, but released a stateme>
for oublieation
He says that from the correspondence
now on his deck, messengers from the
extreme West, as far as the Pacific
Coast, and from the Northwest will
pass through Kancas City and Chiago
en route to New York; from the North
west Dr. J. W. Anderson, the Reginal
Secretary, will start with his forces
at Portland, Oregon and will pick up
all the way through until be reaches
American Who At
tacked Negro In
Russia Jailed
APOLOGIZES TO THE UNION
COMMITTEE
MOSCOW, USSR, August—(CNA) Le
muel Lewis, an American worker who
attacked a Negro worker working in
the same factory with him, in a mess
hall, has been placed in jail to await a
trail. The Russian workers became
so provoked over this act of chauvin
ism that they vigorously protested at
mass meetings held in many of the
large industrial centers. Lewis who
has had time to think over the crime
he committed, has realized that he is
not in America where the bosses en
courage such antagonisms among Ne
gro and white workers, but is in the
Soviet Union where such acts are bit
terly condemned. Lewis has admit
ted that he now understands the crude
mistake that he made and blames him
self for being under the influence of
“National Chauvinism”. This chau
vinism which has originated in Amer
ica and is apart of the system the bos
ses use to keep the workers divided,
is the most vicious weapon that renders
organization difficult among the Negro
ajf* white workers!. An energetic
enlightening campaign is being waged
in the Soviet Union and among those
workers who are affiliated to the more
militant organizations in other <. ..un
tries to eradicate all roots of chauvin
ism in order that the workers may pro
ceed unhampered in their fight for
better conditions.
The communists in the Soviet Union
are the vanguard of the working class
and load in this fight to purge the
ranks of the working class of all rem
nants of chauvinism and for freedom
for all oppressed national minorities
and the Negro workers. Such acts as
committed by Lewis are not permitted
in the Soviet Union and the workers
do not wait to receive directives from
the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union to wage a battle against such
an evil, but of their own initiative,
start a vigorous campaign to prove to
the Negro workers their solidarity in
the class struggle.
Pickens Secures
Passage To Cuba
New York, Aug. 22—The effective
ness of the N. A. A. C. P.’s protest last
spring in the matter of difficulty ex
perienced by Langston Hughes, famous
Negro poet and novelist, in seceuring
passage to Cuba on the Ward Line was
demonstrated this week when William
Pickens, Field Secretary of the N. A.
A. C. P., obtained, without difficulty,
nassage to Havana. Mr. Pickens is
sailing August 23rd on the Ward Line s
new ship, the Morro Castle which is
maing its maiden voyage on the 23rd.
Mr. Pickens is also returning on a
Ward Line steamer, probably the Mor
ro Castle, leaving Havana September
16th.
It will be remembered that the Ward
Lineerefused to accommodate Langston
Hughes on the ground that the Cuban
Government did notwant American Ne
groes to enter Cuba. The N. A.. A. •
P made virorous protests to officials or
the Line and to the Cuban Government
with theresult. that all question on this
point was cleared up. Mr. Pickens re
ports that in seemring his accommoda
tions he wrote the Ward Line office on
the o cial stationary of the N. A. A.
C. P-, and went in person to their or
fice to secure his tickets.
“I didn’-t even take the pains to
pass for white,” reports Mr. Pickens.
ORGANIZE TO SMASH GASTONIA
VERDICT
RALEIGH, N. C— (CNA) Did’nt you
speak on the same platform with a Ne
gro ", the prosecuting attorney asked
a defense witness at the trail of seven
tetxile organizers. When the reply
was made in the affirmative, the judge
ordered the jury to consider this fact
in questioning the validity of the wit
ness’ testimony. Over a year ago the
organizers had defended themselves a
gainst a mob of policeled gansters. In
the conflict the gang leader, cheif of
police Alderholt, was killed. The trail
was held in an atmostphere of intense
racial and anti-working class hostility.
As a result the seven defendants were
sentenced to terms ranging from five
i to twenty years.
The attorney for the International
Labor defense filed more than 100 ob
jections to the manner in which the
trail was conducted, but these object
ions were overruled by the state Su
preme Court. While the case is being
carried to the U. S. Supreme Court, the i
Internationa lLabor Defense is organ
izing Negro and white workers to smash
this vicious sentence.
The Negro referred to in the question
is Otto Hall, organizer of the American
Negro Labor Congreess. At the time
of the police attack, a group of white
texti'e workers risked their lives to
save him from a lvnching mob. They
furnished him with fare to escape North
where he is now organizing t6 save
the Gastonia defendants from a living
! death.
Dr. Caliver Receives
Federal Appointment
Nashville, Aug. 23— Dr. Ambrose Cal
iver who recently completed his work
for the Ph. D. degree at Columbia Uni
versity has been appointed as Special
ist in Negro Education in the United
States bureau of Education. This is
a Civil Service appointment which was
competitive, and 'Dr. Caliver ranked
first among the long list of applicants
examined. It is a new office which
has been created in the Bureau and Pro
fessor Caliver has the distinction of be
ing the first person to occupy the posi
tion. His training, experience, and
background make him eminently qual
fied for this significant field of work.
The appointment came after Profes
sor Caliver had accepted a teaching
post at Howard University, which ne
cessitated his resignation. The Uni
versity was loathe to give him up, yet
showed consideration and generosity in
their willingness to release him.
The duties of the incumbent of this
office as specified in the announcement
of the position which was released by
the Civil Service Commission are: (1)
Plan and carry out important resaerch
studies in the education of Negroes
especially of elementary grade; also
in Negro secondary education especial
ly for those preparing to enter employ
ment directly from high schools. (2)
Study the work and organization of
public school systems. (3) Stuly con
tent of courses of study in„«-wd* f 4n'>lt
with a viev* •ecommending cl anges
that may be necessary to enable the
schools to prepare colored pupils for
effective citizenship. (4) Study com
munities to determine the nature of
courses that should be offered in school.,
and localities. 5() Serve as consul
tant to school officials and make pub
lic addresses on Negro education be
fore educational organizations._
Professor Caliver was formerly dean
of Fisk University, however, his con
nections were severed in that capacity
in April 1930. Dr. Caliver has ccme
into a unique position, and it is felt
that he will have' a large opportunity
to render a great service to the race.
Ala. Musicians
Make Tour North
Montgomery, Ala., Aug. 19.—After
their final weekly radio appearanc
for the summer over WAPI here to
night, three musical groups of tht
Alabama State Teachers College, un
der the supervision of Willis James,
Musical Director, hit the trail in
their big White Bus for the extended
trip of five weeks that will take them
to Illinois, Michigan, New York and
Pennsylvania.
The aMle uartetteQ, the thirty
piece band and the “Bama State Col
legians”—crack ten-piece dance com
bination—constitute the groups to be
used on this tour. The male quar
tette and the band will be presented
in Chicago and in Detroit at the meet
ings of the National Baptist Curran
tio nand the Elks Grand Lodge re
spectively. The Alabama State bant
will lead the Alabama delegation ii
the Grand Parade at Detroit on Au
gust 26.
“The Bama State Collegians” wil
do the heaviest assignment. They
open with a dance engagement a
Louisville on August 21 and follov
with appointments at the New Ma
sonic Auditorium in Evanston on Au.
gust 22, at the Binga Arcade in Chi
cago on August 23, at the New aM
iestic Ballroom in Detroit on ugus
25 (Midnight Ball), at Pontiac, iMch
igan on August 26, at the Douglas
Club in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on Au
gust 27, at Pittsburgh on August 2?
ana at the Imperial Auditorium ir
New York City on August 30. Thes
crack musicians will then open a
three-weeks’ engagement at the
Strand allroom in Philadelphia oi
Labod Day with extra engagements
in Pennsylvania and New Jersey
cities before returning to the schoo
campus for the opening of the Fal
Quarter on September 22.
I. 0. Of King David To’
Meet At Gordonsville
The Imperial Order of King
David will meet in its Twenty
Second Annual Session at. ML
Fisgah Baptist Church, Gordons
ville, Va., Monday, Tuesday and.
Wednesday, September 1, 2. S,
1930. The delegation from Rich
mond and vicinity will leave from
Main Street Station, Monday aft
erncon, Sept. 1, 1930, at 3:05
o’clock. The Uniform Rank and
Williams Lodge Elks’ Band will
leave by bus Tuesday morning,
returning Tuesday night.
(Mrs.) A. G. TAYLOR,'
G. W. Ruler.
(Miss) MARY M. SCOTT,
G. W. Scribe.
President Hoover
Denounces Lynching
New York, August 21.—“Every de
cent citizen must condemn the lynch
ing eevil as an undermining of the
very essence of both justice and de
mocracy” declares President Hoover in
a letter received from the White
House today by the National Associa
tion for the Advancement of Colored
People.
The President’s statement is con
tained in a letter, signed by Walter H.
Newton, Secretary to the President, and
is written in response to a request
nade by Walter' White, Acting Secre
tary of the Advancement Association,
on August 15th for a pronouncement
from ,the White House regarding the
recent recrudescence of lynching.
In his letter to President Hoover,
Mr. White declared that the,‘total of
fourteen Iynchings during the first
eight months of the year is two more
than occurred during all of 1929. This
increase, and especially ,the complete
breaking down of machinery for the
prevention of such mob outbursts, pre
sents, we are certin you will agree,
one of the emost serious aspects of dis
regard of law now manifest in the
United States. It is a danger not only
to victims of these mobs but to the
Government as a whole and to the safe
ty and welfare of men and women of
all races. This wilful disregard and
flouting of law by, lynching mobs con
stitutes, in our opinion, a more serious
menaeeto American inst.._tions than
all the propaganda of Communists now
being inquired into by a Congressional
investigating ommittee.”
Since the Association’s letter to the
President another lynching has taken
place at Tarboro, N. C., on August 19th.
ELIZABETH N. A. A. C. P. OPENS
SWIMMING POOL.
New York, Aug. 22.—Through the
vigorous action of the Elizabeth, New
ersey branch of the N. A. A. C. P., a
new municipal swimming pool at Re
creation Pier has been opened to all
"orsons regardless of race. The new
ool is th« only one of its kind in Eliz
H'th, When four small colored hny
apl:ei for . aim.ssioa, which is free
during the morning, they were toll
that they had appeared on the wrong
day. Quest'ons as to wh:ch day would
> right brought only evasions on the
part of the officials. The parents of
the , children brought the matter to
he attention of the Elizabeth brnch.
which formally took it up with Mayor
John F. Kenah of Elizabeth. The del
egation which called upon Mayor Kenah
also included representatives from
O’ges of Elks and Masons, an Ameri
can Legion Post, and several other Ne
gro bodies. As a result of this action
and a statement by the branch that if
necessary it would institute legal ac
tion to force the opening of the ppool,
action was taken to insure the admis
sion of Negroes to the pool along with
citizens of other races at all times.
Contest Ends For Negrc
Composers
Awards Made Through the Robert Cur
tis Odgen Association. Competition
Started by Rodman Wanamaker.
An important feature of the Conven
tion of the National Association of Ne
gro Musicians, Incorporated, which met
in Chicago this past week, was the an
nouncement of the awards in the con
test for colored composers sponsored
by the late Rodman Wanamaker. The
prizes this year were offered by Cap
tain John Wanamaker, Jr., as a me
morial to his father.
Rodman Wanamaker conceived this
interesting idea when he attended the j
Convention of thi9 Association when i*
met in Piladelphia in July, 1926. Mr.
Wanamaker, who always showed a
great interest in the Negro race, dur
ing his philanthropic life, made this
contest his great interest and hope in
the developing of the native gift and
genius of music for entirely original
musical compositions in this naturally
musical race. This contest has aroused
nation-wide interest irc^n California
to Maine. The number of judges this
year being increased, making the re
wards more difficult to win.
The judges were such well-known
music critics, as: Edvrin Franko Gold
man, Theodore Drury, J. Rosamond
Johnson, Guiseppi Boghetti, Nat Shil
krett, Orlando E. Wardell, W. Franklin
Hoxter and Perry Bradford. They re
port that the compositions, on a whole,
have been of a high standard this
year in all four classes which are:
Song. Dance Groups, Spirituals, and
Choral Wortf. Those* in; the latter
espeecially showed exceptional execu
tion of difficult themes.
Major Scroggins, Preseident of the
Robert Curtis Ogden Association of
the Wanamaker Store, Philadelphia,
represented Captain Wanamaker at the
Convention. It his announcement of
the awards he brought direct word
from Captain Wanamaker that this in
teresting Contest will be carrieed on
next year. The plans will be anxious
ly awaited alike bycomneti tors and
spectators all over the United States.
The awards according to classes are:
Class I. A Song, 1st Prize—S150.
Jump Back, Honey, Jump Back. Win
ner Willinm L. Dawson, 4028 Parkway,
Chicago, 111. 2nd Prize, $100, Hinder
Thousands Expected To
Attend Annual Meet Here
Tobacco Farmers In i
Georgia Ruined
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 26. — Hopes
placed by farmers in this year’s good
tobacco crop to help them ward off
starvation .were blasted during the first
few days of selling last week at the
markets in the Georgia bright-leaf to
bacco belt.
in spite of bright talk in the press
preceding the opening of the market
the agents for the manufacturers and
exporters of tobacco suceded in forcing
the price lower than they had ever been
since the war. At 76 out of 59 ware
houses tobacco was selling during the
course of last week at 10 cents a pound,
far below what is cost the farmer to
produce it. During the course of the
tobacco auctions ridiculously low price.
The low price spells complete ruin for
many of the small farmers. Uuab’e to
meet their d bts rnd ja; off fie lan’
1 rds, the te a t farre s will be com*
pi te y smashed. In a frantic effort
to allay the storm of protest leading
noliticians have wired Washington to
send investigators into- the field, al
»b«sugh it is well known that they work
hand in hand with the same interests
that pushed the prices down. In fur
ther pre-election comics the politicians
have also tried to get the farm board to
at least promise some aid. Thus far,
the farm board has found an excuse
for staying out of the muddle, remem
bering the moss they got into with the
wheat farmers.
To save the large planters and force
the tenants to bear thee brunt of the
crisis a conference of representatives
of the Southern tobacco growing states
has been called to meet in Atlanta on
August 11 or 12. In the meantime there
is no help forthcoming for_the small
farmers and tenant farmers who have
nothing left to do but join the already
swelled job lines in the cities.
Leaders Predict Greatest
Session In Its History
Very encouraging reports ar«
coming in to the Reindeer at their
headquarters, 801 Buchanun Street
concerning their Eighth Annual
Convention which meets in this
city September 14 to 17, 1930 in
elusive.
Headquarters have received lit
erature from Garden City Lodge,
Atlantic City N. J.. announcing a
four day excursion to Richmond
during the convention which will
not only bring Reindeer but a host
of others who welcome the oppor
tunity to come to Richmond.
Headquarters have also been in
formed that the Liberty Lodge of
Neuark, N. J., will attend in a bo
dy bringing with them their Rein
deer band. Those who were in New
ark last year and were fortunate
enough to hear this wonderful
band look forward with much de
light to hear it again.
The chapters composed of the
fer.aie division of the order are
making extensive preparations to
attend in large numbers from all
over the country which will add
much to the convention during
their stay.
The convention committee is
busy night and day completing
their arrangements and fell that
every one will leave Richmond with
a desire to return again soon. The
committee is leaving no stone un
turned in looing after the physical
and social welfare of the visitors
and are desironus of assistance
from their friends in matter of
donations and housing etc. Many
of which have responded wonderful
ly. Any further information may be
had by addressing a postal to Wirt
R. Jones, secretary, 801 Buchanan
St or calling Ran. 1955-J; and a
representative will gladly call.
Judging by the enthusiastic re
ports received at headquarters
from all over the country this will
be the largest and best convention
ever held by the Grand Lodge with
a probable attendance of between
eight to ten thousand visitors
Indians Struggle
Against British
PESHAWAR- NDIA—(CNA) Severe Fi
ghting is now progress between the In
dian masses who are struggling for
independence, and the troops of Great
Britian.
Battles on the plains outside of this
city were fought Thursday, Friday and
Saturday. British troops with all the
tools of modern warfare, artillery, ma
chine guns, tan: | s' lpnd poison gos
could not prevent one detachment of
the Awridi from advancing to within
a mile of the city. They did suceed,
however, in holding the city itself from
the revolutionary peasants.
The trible armies are now established
north and southeast, within a few miles
of here and hold the country between,
except for the fortress and city itself.
Constant skirmishing on land and air
raids by the British are taking place.
The rebel armies have their headquar- '
ters in caves, in. • which Jhe region
abounds.
Me Not. Penman Lovingood, 119 Edge
combe Ave., New York City.
Class II. Dance Groups, 1st Prize,
$160, Scherzo. Winner-William L.
Dawson, 4028 Parkway, Chicago, 111.
2nd pize, $100, Negro Folk Suite. Ma
jor N. Clark Smith, 6000 S. Parkway.
Chicago, 111.
Class III. Spirituals, 1st prize, $160,
Wade in the Water. Winner. Drucilla
Tendy Altwell, 611 Tormillo St., El
Paso, Texas. 2nd prize, $100, Negro
Folk Song Prelude. Major N. Clark
Smith, 5000 S. Parkway, Chicago, 111.
Class IV. Choral Work, prize $260,
African Chief. Winner, J. Harold
Brown, 229 W. 28th St., Indianapolis,
Ind. _
Mitchell Children Injured (
The two youngest children of
Editor R. C. Mitchell, Editor of
the Richmond Planet, Edith Eliza-'
beth, age 2, and Reginald Davis
Mitchell, age 4, fell three stories,
Thursday afternoon while playing
in a window at the back of the
house, 10 S- Harvie St. A grape
arbor directly under the window
broke the fall of the two young
sters preventing perhaps fatal in
juries on the bricks below. They
were rushed to the St. Phillips
j Hospital where the condition of
the girl was reported as fair, the
boy suffered internal injuries.
rHROUGH TOWN GAMBLERS CLEAN
OUT SECOND STREET
Reports from the underworld hint that
two gamblers of foreign extraction have
been playing “Hail Columbia" with our
Richmond stud fans. It is averred
that these birds carried a system that
just wouldn’t dont ar.d our boys are
nursing bruised pocket books as result
of trying to beat these gentlemen gam
blers . Large galleries watched night
after night as Richmond tried to re
gain the losses of the nigt before and
each night um-teen dollora left the
security of Second Street sports to
never return. Reliable reports aver
that nearly one thousand dollars were
lost within ten days.
Runaway Girl Stabs Her Brother
TRAFFIC BLOCKED: HUNDREDS
DRAWN TO SCENE AT SECOND AND
LEIGH
(Staff Correspondent)
When George Bolden, age 20, saw his
runaway sister Ada Bolden 14, leave
the Hippodrome Theater where he had
station himself viit the expectation'
that she would be in there, tried to
induce her to return home, she broke
away and ran back into the theater he
went in after her and she ran out a
gain. The chase drew hundreds to the
scene, and traffic at Second and Leigh
was blocked for a few minutes.
The young girl secured a knife from
samewhere and as her brother cornered
her at the corner of Third and Leigh,
she stabbed him in the arm, leg and
/land. The crowd thinking that the
voung man was attacking the girl, grab*
bed him and allowed her to escape.
She ran into a house on the N. W.
corner of Third and Jackson, frighten
ing the lone occupant an elderly woman
suffering with heart trouble so, that
the woman had to take to bed. Elud
ing her brother again she ran down
third street, By this time at least a
thousand people had been attracted,
and it looked like a gigantic marathon
race. Automobiles following the chase
were lined with occupants on the Tun
ing board. The little girl seemed to
have been the winner of the marathin,
completely eluding her brother and al/
tte spectators. The police arrived on
the scene and the crowd was quickly
dispersed, but there was no sign of
little Ada. Our reporter passing the
scene at the time had the luck to find
out that she ran in 200 East Duval
Street, the home of a deaf and dumb
woman. He walked in and found the
woman of the house trying to get the
girl to leave the house by the use of
her signs. The girl said that her name
was Ada Bolden; that the man after
her was not her brother and that she
resided et 502 West Clay Street. F
rther investigation revealed that *'.*
•vas the boy’s sister, and that shi
her home Saturday. She is the
ghter of Mrs Susie Bolden, 725 A
Leigh Street.